4. The Spy Who Loved Me: Making a splash in the company car
Image: TMDBFew Bond gadgets are as gloriously excessive as the Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Driven into the sea, it transforms into a submarine, allowing its occupants to continue their journey without so much as dampening a sleeve.
In 2008, Swiss company Rinspeed unveiled the sQuba, a concept car capable of travelling on land and underwater. Its creator explicitly credited Bond as the inspiration. This was one occasion when the film helped bring its own prediction into existence.
There was a catch. The real car had an open cockpit, and its occupants breathed compressed air through diving equipment. It delivered the underwater motoring, though the dry-cleaning arrangements remained firmly in Q's department. Rinspeed's account of the sQuba
